Engineering Manager, Financial Data Platform

San Francisco, CA;
Sunnyvale, CA

Door Dash is looking for an Engineering Manager with a strong platform mindset to lead the Financial Data Platform team. The team’s mission is to build foundational systems that collect raw financial data from all Door Dash companies, and process it into a unified, integrated “single source of truth” data model. These systems sit at the intersection of all teams that are serving our three-sided marketplace (Consumers, Merchants, Dashers).

Key functions of this team include:

• Data ingestion & integration:
  Build SDKs and services that make it extremely easy to ingest and integrate data from all Door Dash products and services.
• Data quality & governance:
  Ensure that the data is complete, timely, and accurate. Build intelligent tools that automatically help validate, standardize, and regulate the data, and remediate errors while maintaining strict immutability guarantees.
• Data storage:
  Provide a reliable and structured way to store the data, and make it easily accessible with appropriate data controls.

As the Engineering Manager for the Financial Data Platform team, you will lead a talented and passionate team of software engineers focused on building and scaling big data systems and platform services that intelligently process billions of events per month. Your leadership will ensure the delivery of exceptional systems that are scalable, reliable, and unlock the best-in-class product and tech innovations.

You’ll partner with PMs, data engineers, and senior leadership to define and execute a strategic roadmap that balances scalable platform development with cutting-edge tools.

• Lead and grow a team of exceptional backend and full stack engineers delivering end-to-end engineering solutions
• Be the technologist and system thinker who connects the dots between technology and the business and unlocks business opportunities through tech innovation
• Collaborate with product managers, business leaders, and key stakeholders to determine the team's roadmap and vision, and manage execution against that roadmap
• Provide architectural guidance and professional development for a team of 8+
• Encourage innovation, teamwork, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, and outside-of-the-box thinking
• Oversee the hiring process for your team, in partnership with recruiting, to grow a diverse and inclusive team
• Drive key business metrics

• BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of experience in people management leading full-stack teams (backend & web) of 8+ engineers
• 8+ years of industry experience
• A customer-centric mindset and will apply that to building out platform services
• Strong product sense and thought partnership with cross-functional peers
• Experience with distributed system design, system scaling, and performance optimization
• AI fluency and proven ability to find innovative applications of AI for financial data platform
• Humility - willing to get into the details and open to feedback
• Growth mindset – you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
• Adaptability, resiliency, and the ability to thrive in ambiguity – things can change quickly, and you'll need to help the team evolve

About Door Dash

At Door Dash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

Door Dash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We re committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium…